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...particular "German suicide personality." In a computer-aided study of 10,000 patients who have passed through his Berlin Suicide Prevention Center, Thomas found few unusual characteristics. Most (53%) of the patients were troubled by problems of sex and marriage. One in twelve patients were men of the cloth, but that was no great surprise to Thomas, an ex-Lutheran pastor. "Everyone else turns to the clergy," he says. "But to whom does the clergy turn...
Even then his droll humor was evident. In 1964, while using burlap to impress the texture of cloth in his lost-wax bronzes, he hit upon the idea of making sculptures out of the burlap itself draped over metal armatures. He quickly became handy with a needle and thread, still chuckles over the fact that when thieves recently broke into his studio, they walked off with his old secondhand Singer sewing machine and ignored his sculptures (which command...
...remember one very acutely. It was in 1957 in the secondary school near the school where I was studying. I was 13. A group of us went, carrying a big piece of cloth that said 'Batista-Murderer.' Then the police came, and started with the clubs. You know-clubs, big pieces of steel. I remember, I escaped by a miracle. I ran into a bus and could escape...
...Nixon? What ever happened to the matron in the Republican cloth coat, the silent partner in the Nixon marriage who never appeared quite comfortable as the wife of a public man? She has got to the point of enjoying flattering headlines and TV footage, for one thing. For another, she has acquired sufficient self-confidence to face pickets, skeptical reporters and ordinary citizens with the same aplomb. Finally, she has discovered a worthy cause within her ken: voluntary social action...
...Then it's on to the Swiss shower, a kind of liquefied Iron Maiden. You stand surrounded by a firing squad of nozzles and whooosh!-needle-like jetsprays of chilling water riddle you from 16 different directions. "That," says a gentleman technician, helping you into a gold terry-cloth toga, "ought to get the old blood circulating...